Body attitudes in patients with eating disorders at presentation and completion of intensive outpatient day treatment
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Treatment
All patients enrolled in the intensive outpatient day program of Amarum, a specialist center for the treatment of eating disorders located in Zutphen, The Netherlands. Patients attended group therapy 5 days a week and commit to a minimum stay of 26 weeks. The average length of treatment was 26 weeks. The treatment program at Amarum is multidimensional in nature, based on a biopsychosocial model with strong cognitive-behavioral and experiential components. General goals of the treatment are
Results
First, we wanted to identify what characterized patients' body attitudes when they present for treatment, and if any differences existed across the five different eating disorder subtypes. A MANOVA was conducted to compare the levels of the assessment scales between diagnostic groups at intake. Significant differences were found for negative appreciation of body size (BAT-1), (F(4, 193) = 9.274, p < .001) and the total BAT score (F(4, 193) = 4.401, p = .002). Also the five diagnostic groups differed
Discussion
The main purpose of the current study was to explore body experience (BE) as measured by the BAT in patients with different eating disorder subtypes and to determine whether the measured body experience changed over time while patients were in intensive outpatient day treatment. Consistent with the literature, our patient diagnositic subtype groups differed in BMI at intake. Following treatment both the AN subtypes indicate significant increases in BMI, while the BN subtypes and the EDNOS group
Dr. Cecile C. Exterkate, De Gelderse Roos, Wolfheze 2, 6874 BE Wolfheze and Nijmegen Institute for Scientist-Practitioners in Addiction, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Dr. Cecile C. Exterkate, De Gelderse Roos, Wolfheze 2, 6874 BE Wolfheze and Nijmegen Institute for Scientist-Practitioners in Addiction, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Dr. Patricia F. Vriesendorp, Amarum, Specialist Center for Eating Disorders, GGNet, Zutphen, The Netherlands.
Prof. Dr. Cor A.J. de Jong, Nijmegen Institute for Scientist-Practitioners in Addiction, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.